Wednesday October 16, 2013, 6:23 pm
What sort of person likes to compare delicious foods to crack? The sort of person who's never done crack, that's who. These fries are like crack. These kale chips are like crack. Um, no. They're not.

But we apparently need to carve out an exception for Oreos. Because according to new research conducted on lab rats at Connecticut College, “America’s favorite cookie” is as addictive as cocaine.

In addition to reacting to the cookies like rats dosed with cocaine did in previous studies, researches observed levels of addictive behavior in the Oreo-eating rodents as those that were hooked on cocaine.

“These findings suggest that high fat/sugar foods and drugs of abuse trigger brain addictive processes to the same degree and lend support to the hypothesis that maladaptive eating behaviors contributing to obesity can be compared to drug addiction,” the research teams writes in a statement.

The study gives credence to admissions made by the only working Oreo addict in entertainment, Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster. In an essay for McSweeny’s, the blue creature opened up about his destructive relationship with cookies. “Me thinks me have serious problem. Me thinks me addicted,” he writes. “But since when it acceptable to call addict monster? It affliction. It disease. It burden. But does it make me monster?”

One can only hope that this new scientific understanding of Oreo addiction will encourage society to be more accepting of those, like Cookie Monster, who have suffered in in the shadows for so long.

Yep, these cookies are crap but they are also dangerous. Set aside the allergies and sugar addictions, think of the the palm oil additive, and then these and all the prepackaged products have much greater impact on the world. Petition at end of article - signed.
This is probably much easier for me to reject I don't like these cookies or any of the packaged cookies.

Thursday October 17, 2013, 10:42 am
I stopped eating Oreos when they stopped making them with a creamy center. Tasted like any other junk cookie to me when that happened. That was MANY years ago. I don't buy any store made cookies any longer but instead make my own when the desire presents itself.

Thursday October 17, 2013, 3:58 pm
Aside from the palm oil thing the question I had was why are they testing them on rats anyway. Rats should not be used in this manner and Oreos have been around for years. Why deal with this now? Let the rats end their testing days and move on to some other stupid test (many of them are stupid really).